HAMISH MCRAE: Bond market could deliver a lasting blow to economy ⊖
Rachel Reeves is wrong about a lot of things, but she is right to be worried about a run on gilts.
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21 days ago
HAMISH MCRAE: Business will outlast Labour idiocy ⊕
There is global confidence in our biggest companies, which will continue as successful businesses long after our current political leaders are simply people who were important once.
35 days ago
HAMISH MCRAE: Cash is not king for savers as shares offer better return ⊕⊕
My feeling is that we are in the early stages of a revival of equity culture, driven in part by the market boom but equally by the apps that make it easy to invest.
55 days ago
HAMISH MCRAE: Tax our homes at your peril, Chancellor ⊖
Right now the market is fragile. So, Rachel: do not mess with it. If you engineer a housing crash you will end up with less tax revenue, not more.
69 days ago
HAMISH MCRAE: Andy Burnham in bond market blunder
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Burnham, mayor of Manchester and aspiring PM, proposed Labour should borrow an extra £40 billion to spend on building council houses, large-scale nationalisation and the like.
77 days ago
HAMISH MCRAE: Britain needs MORE billionaires to make big decisions
If we had more homegrown top-end billionaires, those decisions would be taken here, rather than on the other side of the pond.
3 months ago
HAMISH MCRAE: We'll all be working into our 70s
The maths is daunting. The number of people of working age relative to those of current retirement age is shifting with a smaller workforce having to support a huge rise in retirees.
HAMISH MCRAE: Why now could be the time to sell your shares
To be clear, I am not predicting a crash, but these are indeed tricky times and it would be nuts not to acknowledge that.
HAMISH MCRAE: We can fight inflation - here's how
If Government policies push it up and the Bank of England fails to curb it, then it's ordinary people who are hammered.
4 months ago
HAMISH MCRAE: New Trump tariffs spoil the party
Disruption is never good and even if, as seems realistic, world trade does settle down, there will be lasting costs from the tariff war.